Re: [Health] Some Questions regarding GNU Health

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Khurram

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:48:41 +0500
Khurram Shahzad <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Following are some questions raised by our health professionals:
> 
> 1. While doing patient evaluation, we enter the main condition. Then
> why do we have separate "Conditions"? Do we have to create separate
> "Conditions" record after every patient evaluation in order to keep
> track of whether that disease is healed or not and some other
> information? I am unable to understand the real use of Conditions and
> its relationship with Evaluations.
The patient relevant health conditions are those who are shown in the
main patient record. 

There is not a one-to-one relationship between health conditions and
evaluation. An evaluation might not even have a health condition
associated to it (for example, a routine well-child visit)

Also, benign / self-limiting health conditions are
recorded in the evaluation, but not necessarily they will be part of
the patient relevant conditions. Of course, at the end is the
health professional who will decide whether to include it as relevant
or not.

Finally, you can associate a "followup" evaluation type to an existing
patient health condition. This will be also recorded on the history.
This is quite handy for chronic conditions.


> 
> 2. The laboratory tests results and imaging test results need to be
> made read only once the results are final. Is their any way to mark
> the results done so that they can not be edited in future.

We will include the crypto functionality for the standard lab,
similarly to the evaluation or prescription module. At the moment that
the responsible person signs the lab result, the document will become
read-only.

> 
> 3. How a doctor can refer a patient to another doctor?

In the evaluation form, the field "referred to" allows you to do this.


> 
> Thanking you in anticipation.
> 
Thank you for your feedback !

Luis